Albert pesekecker



(No Model.)

A. PESENEOKBR.

YVPLOGIPEDE.'

No, 296,776. Patented Aprl, 1884.

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PATENT VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,776, dated April l5, 1884.

Application led September '1, 1883. (No model.)

l* To LEZ whom iz'; may concern.:

'Be it known that I, ALBERT PEsENEcKEE, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Vehicle, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved vehicle which is propelled and steered by its occnpant.

The invention consists, principally, of the combination, in a velocipede, of ratchetwheels rigidly secured to rear axle, with loose annular cog-wheels, and disks fastened to both sides of vcog-wheels, and with foot-levers engaging said cog-wh eels.

The invention also consists in the details of improvement hereinafter more fully pointed ont.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section of my improved vehicle on the line a: fr, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on the line g; y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail side view of the mechanism for transferring motion from the foot-levers to the wagon-axle, and Fig. 5 a transverse ceng tral section on line n n, Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The letter A represents the body of the vehicle, c being the front and b the rear axle.

Upon the axle b turn loosely two pairs of disks or cheek-pieces, d cl.

c e are two annular cog-wheels situated, respectively, between each pair of disks cl, and rigidly fastened to and connecting the same. The disks d project beyond the circn inference of the cog-wheels e, so as to protect them from dirt or injury.

Between each pair of disks d ci, and concentric to and within the annular cog-wheel e, is rigidly fastened around axle b a ratchetwheel, f, which is engaged by one or more pawls, g, pivoted to the inner side of one of the disks d. It will be seen that when the disks d and cog-wheels c are revolved forward, the pawls g will engage the ratchetwheels f and cause them to likewise revolve forward,andthereby to turn the axle b. When, however, the wheels e are revolved backward, the pawls g will not engage the teeth of the ratchet-wheelsf, and consequently no motion will be imparted to axle b.

Motion is imparted to the cog-wheels e as follows: 7L h are two levers, pivoted near the front of the carriage, parallel to each other, and terminating each in a toothed segment, i, which engages the teeth of the cog-wheel e. Each lever. his forked nea-r its end, as shown,

and is provided with a foot-rest, j, on its npper edge. 7.; is a chain running transversely across the bottom of the carriage-body, over friction-rollers Z Z, and connecting the levers l1.. The operator, seated near the back ofthe carriage, steps alternately upon the foot-rests of the levers h. Then he steps upon the right lever and forces said lever down, the chain 7i: will be drawn up at the left side, and thereby draw the left lever, l1., up with it, and vice versa. In this way the operator will alternately lower and raise the levers 7i, and thereby revolve the cog-wheels e forward and backward; but the cog-wheels c will, when revolving forward, by pawls g, as heretofore described, revolve ratchet-wheelsf forward,and thereby propel the carriage. inasmuch as one of the wheels c will always revolve forward, continuous forward motion is imparted to the carriage.

The steering of the vehicle is eected by a chain, m, attached near the two ends of the front axle, a, and running over a steeringwheel, o, in front of the drivers seat. Of course the bottom of the carriage-hodyis slotted aboveeach foot-rest j, so that the oper` ators feet can reach the saine.

I claim as my invention- Y l. The combination, in a relocipede, of axle b, having ratchet wheels f rigidly secured thereto, with the loose annular cog-Wheels e and disks d, fastened to both sides of cogwheels, and having pawls g, and with the footlevers 71 engaging cog-wheels e, substantially as specified. y

2. Thecombinalion of axle b, ratchet-wheels f, cog-wheels e, disks d, and pawls g, with the foot-levers h, and with the chain k, connecting the foot-levers and passing over friction-rollers l, substantially as specified.

ALBERT PESENECKEB.

lVitnesses:

F. v. BRrEsEN, ROBERT H. Bor. 

